start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

On the bike trail in my neighborhood I saw a guy do that - leave the bag, and I said something like "excuse me, you uh left this here," and he said "Yes, I'll pick it up on my way back," as if that made it perfectly okay. Different from leaving it there forever I guess, and I understand it's not pleasant to carry. But in the meantime there's a bag of shit sitting there; how are people supposed to know that it's only going to be there for 10 minutes?

Concerning Windows search, use this instead: https://www.mythicsoft.com/filelocatorlite

Ta! I will install that asap

Thanks Sheesh, feels good to know I'm not alone in this stance.

parcels or even just envelopes done up tighter than a mummy in sellotape so that if you use scissors you always cut a bit off the things being sent and the only way in is a large sheet metal cutter plunged through the middle of the package, through the masking tape, through the cardboard, through the cushioning and (thud) right through the center of etc.

My nan used to do that with birthday present wrapping. Whole thing was bound up tighter than a geishas foot.

some of my noted either/or drivers are really old people who think they're driving an old car with a manual transmission and are driving with feet on both pedals. you can tell because the brake lights are on 99% of the time

this is not how manual cars work either

people should choose a speed to drive at and then employ cruise control whenever possible

thirty years since being bemused by cruise control jokes in American comic strip Bloom County and I have still never seen this feature in a motor vehicle

How come? I'm sure it works on the wrong side of the road just as good as the right side.

people should choose a speed to drive at and then employ cruise control whenever possible

Had an older relative who used to do this through town. Going around the curve by the laundromat at 40 MPH always a nail-biter.

I assumed cruise control was just standard in all cars these days, but maybe only in the US. I'm not joking about using it whenever possible. A lot of drivers have a real problem with constantly speeding up and slowing down. Traffic would be smoother and driving would be more fuel efficient if we just let our cars maintain a constant speed.

my car doesn't have cruise control. idk why. i used to use it in my old car and had it had a noticeable effect on fuel economy.

Maybe it's because uk roads are shorter?

A reminder that automatic transmission is still mostly an American (and Australian?) thing.

if you've been in any car manufactured in the last, I dunno, two decades for US use that has an automatic transmission and it wasn't the cheapest trim level imaginable, it has a cruise control

btw well aware manual transmission vehicles don't involve using two pedals at the same time unless you're engaging the clutch, but old people are mysterious

i have the cheapest trim 2016 corolla :)

great car btw

I love cruise control. Keeps me from getting speed camera tickets in work zones.

kudos to toyota on still having a really low trim level!

half the dealers won't even stock those because they're not really that much cheaper now? like the difference between installing cruise control/power windows/etc and switching the system to build such a low number of one-off cars without any options almost makes up for the extra feature cost in opportunity cost

if you're wondering if my complaint about old people is common
https://www.google.com/webhp?ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=rest%20foot%20on%20clutch

Was reminded of one today: students who say they are studying the non-subjects of "pre-med" or "pre-law". You haven't been admitted to medical or law school yet. Just say you're studying biology or English.

Unnecessary pre-s make me IA. Pre-sliced, pre-cooked, pre-order; "Have you pre-booked?" No, but I have booked.

Waiting forever for a book to get to me from the US in an Amazon marketplace purchase. Book I've wanted for ages, 2 weeks over the ETA.
Package arrived earlier. They sent the wrong book.
&there's no invoice so wonder what their checking system is.

it has power windows, bluetooth, whatever else but no cruise control. i don't even notice it's gone tbh.

tbh I wouldn't for a while because 90% of my driving is in the city!

Unnecessary pre-s make me IA. Pre-sliced, pre-cooked, pre-order; "Have you pre-booked?" No, but I have booked.

pre-fix menus aaaargghhh

(because it's wrong, not because of the unnecessary pre)

it's pricks fixey duh

The new free wifi on the underground works really well, but sometimes the other free wifi jumps in - when this happens, it means that instead of the page I was about to load on my phone's browser, there is a login screen instead, and no way to retrieve what was there before. If it was an article that I was previously saving to read, that's it gone.

Truly, I have the hardest life.

the difference between installing cruise control/power windows/etc and switching the system to build such a low number of one-off cars without any options almost makes up for the extra feature cost in opportunity cost

I think that's pretty much the case. There are still a few models left. Almost makes me want to get a Ford Fiesta.

I hate some of the automatic features that come standard on cars. For example, the driver's side door jamb sensor went on the fritz, resulting in my dome light coming on every few moments and all my door locks locking and unlocking themselves. I was able to manually turn the dome light completely off until I got the sensor replaced, but I had to find some sort of ABACAB code out of the manual to deactivate the locks.

Same kind of thing, as I think I already mentioned, when I replaced the battery and then had to go online to find the code to turn my radio back on again.

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG_500/MI0002/370/MI0002370169.jpg?partner=allrovi.com

that's the point I knew I'd bought a luxury car -- the manual is huge and appears to have most of the cheat codes

my current car is teh first one I've had that has cruise control. I often use it when driving back from Tampa, or en route to Atlanta

other than that, very little opportunity to use it unless you like turning it off every 3 seconds..

I only use it when I'm backing out of my driveway.

chillens can jump out the way

I'm using cruise control on highways now because I have a lead foot and just got a $240 speeding ticket. $300 if I want to do traffic school!

How come?

because you don't brake at the same time as accelerating

I'm sure it works on the wrong side of the road just as good as the right side.

me too!

no idea what "trim level" is

options packages

this led me to find a wikipedia page I'd never have guessed the existence of
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automotive_trim_nomenclature

because you don't brake at the same time as accelerating

superannuated racers?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heel-and-toe

I think Car Talk addressed the weird thing with older drivers who are going around with the brake lights always on as a combination of people with bad leg mobility (who probably shouldn't be driving) having a foot on each pedal and people who used to rest their left foot on the clutch who now leave it on the brake because... who even knows why

I can only attest to having driven behind these people on a maddening number of occasions, not to their reasons

It doesn't really bother me until I see the brake lights turn on as we're going up a hill.

sitting in a very quiet waiting room except for one woman who is both chewing gum with her mouth open and texting with the keyboard volume up

It doesn't really bother me until I see the brake lights turn on as we're going up a hill.

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Now that I'm sharing the roads with drivers as a scooterist(tm), I have like 1000 more IAs about driving than I used to. Thought about this thread today when someone in front of me braked every few seconds at nothing in particular...No problem! Just braking! WHILE GOING UPHILL. I was like, if you need to slow down, you know you can just stop accelerating, right? Yay gravity wins again!

In conclusion, people are the worst.

maybe they're very supportive of the gasoline and brake pad industries

oman who is both chewing gum with her mouth open and texting with the keyboard volume up

DEATH FROM ABOVE. AND SIDES. AND UP HER FACE.

lol otm

I think at this point in my life I'm putting off starting new activities etc. because it just means lots more IAs.

Floridians and hurricanes. every year people freak out when someone suggests there's a hurricane and it "might hit Florida". a phrase that gets uttered for pretty much any Atlantic hurricane that is anywhere in the vicinity of land at some point.

my bestie cancelled a pool party at the last minute due to the last tropical storm and the thing was FIVE DAYS away from land at that point, not even close enough to affect our weather!

the only reason I get angry about it is that sometimes people here do really fucking stupid things, like hear a poorly-sourced rumor that there will be a gas shortage due to a storm, and everybody takes 3 or 4 portable containers and fills up. this happened in 05 and of course, 90% of the gas stations were grocery-bagged up for 3 days and all these idiots were smug like "see? I was smart to fill up!". or friends will cancel plans with you 5 days out cos "the storm might hit" and then of course nothing comes (schools are a diff matter, they have to cancel far enough in advance for parents to make plans for the kids so I get why they have to jump the gun).

No, moron, you CAUSED the shortage! it's like fuckin' Terminator shit....

36 years and I still have only experienced 5 canes, and 3 of them were in the same year (to be fair, it was a terrible year).

I do hope, tho, that this current one, if it does deviate, doesn't go anywhere near Louisiana (or any state, for that matter, but esp not there).

went to a karaoke bar last night for a friends birthday, and 2 girls in our group got up and did Tequila

it pissed me off because it was a total troll, just do the easiest laziest song & do the peewee dance. one girl even pretended not to know when to sing

i don't care if you get up and can't sing, i love the effort it takes to try. it's the fact that these 2 didnt try that bugged me. and they werent drunk so that wasn't their excuse

how about when you pull into the gas station and someone has come just before you. they have decided, even though there is no car at the first pump in line, to go to the second pump then stop. you are waiting behind them to see if they will move. nope. put car in park, turn it off. now i have to go around someone and back into the first pump. are you fucking kidding me.